Chapter 970: Chapter 524, ‘Ronglin Hao’ and ‘Gang Yi Hao

Jason Morgan, appointed as the sector governor by the Alliance, is not like a mere figurehead with no real power under the Empire’s conventional system.

Under the Alliance’s system, it is emphasized that each level of government should play its governmental role. Also, the planetary governor of the Alliance is not like the conventional imperial planetary governor who can fully manage the planet. The government and military of the Alliance are separated; the construction of the military is managed by the Military Affairs Department under Tadeusz’s control, even the Planetary Defense Force — called the Pact Army by the Alliance — falls under the jurisdiction of the Military Affairs Department for construction and training on each planet.

The command of the army is entirely under the central command system of the Alliance Army. The planetary garrison system operates under the command of the commanders of the various field armies of the Alliance, with the main forces within these field armies still being part of the Alliance Army.

The power of the planetary governor is almost completely separated from the military. They do not participate in the construction or command of the military and are purely administrative officials.

Furthermore, there is a clear subordinate relationship with the sector governor above, requiring them to report their work to the sector governor. Although the sector governor cannot directly remove the planetary governor, the latter’s work performance is greatly influenced by his evaluation and will be held accountable for mistakes.

As a sector governor, he can intervene more directly and smoothly in the management of each planet and allocate resources of each planet to achieve coordinated development within the star sector.

Only with such clear centralization brought by the Alliance can this be achieved.

Of course, sector governors like Jason Morgan are also insulated from military matters.

But it doesn’t mean he doesn’t need military support.

There are bad elements among the masses.

And the person tied to the chair in front of him is one of them.

This was one of the ruling classes on Ronglin Star.

To be honest, Jason Morgan has no regard for these people at all.

During the Ironfang War, they performed poorly, basically offering no resistance, just fleeing and hiding all over the planet.

Just that would be forgivable, one can’t expect every planet to have someone extraordinary who can lead the survivors against the Green Skins and make a name. Organizing survivors and preserving more vitality under the threat of the Green Skins is already considered task completion.

However, the ruling classes of Ronglin Star and many planets in the Steel Fire Dragon system continued exploiting and oppressing even in such difficult and crisis times, living luxurious lives.

Even after being liberated by the Mingyang Sect, they still controlled the planet and actively aligned themselves. The Sect of Mechanics didn’t bother managing these affairs directly, and this local force was willing to be their lackey — isn’t that convenient?

But being a lackey means serving the Sect of Mechanics. While the Sect of Mechanics aggressively siphoned resources for self-reconstruction, these people seized this opportunity to keep sucking the life out.

In the short period between the end of the Ironfang War and four years ago when Jason Morgan took office, numerous ‘rebellions’ and ‘riots’ broke out on the planets of the Steel Fire Dragon system, especially Ronglin, causing substantial damage to the planetary society.

However, in Morgan’s view, he actually prefers to consider those events as ‘uprisings.’

When people can’t survive, won’t they fight you desperately?

Once Jason Morgan took power, he certainly had to change these issues.

It’s one thing to look down on these original ruling classes, but it’s another thing as their ruling methods are excessively crude and trashy. Morgan needs planetary development, and that requires liberating the productivity of local planets efficiently; these outdated means of production cannot allow the original ruling classes to exploit and oppress like they did slaves.

It’s not just that these people, as middlemen, grab excessive profits. Merely this, Morgan could tolerate. What he cannot tolerate is the immense suppression of society’s productivity caused by such inefficient plundering.

Under his four years of continuous crackdowns and with the support of the Alliance Navy, these original rulers have been severely attacked.

This is a bunch of spineless people who can kneel to the Mingyang Sect and, of course, can kneel to the more powerful Alliance.

However, the difference lies in that the Sect of Mechanics either ignores them or even indulges them, whereas the Alliance strictly regulates and strips away their power and benefits.

Facing these ‘kneelers’ head-on is unwise, so they keep causing trouble secretly. Even in the early days of Morgan’s rule, when it was necessary to rely more on the original administrative forces of each planet, these people not only went through the motions but, according to Mr. Gu, liked to ‘wave the red flag to oppose the red flag.’

Some of Morgan’s policies, which they did not dare to oppose openly, were executed several times over to an extreme degree, causing public outrage.

Jason Morgan is truly fed up with these people.

Having fought with them within the rules for four years, Morgan is tired of the struggle.

If it weren’t for these people’s hindrance, Morgan is confident he could double the development level of the Steel Fire Dragon planets.

Today, there is finally no need to endure them any longer.

After significantly weakening the control power of these original groups within the political framework, now he can finally unleash severe measures and eliminate them physically.

He doesn’t even bother with formal procedures to avoid any recurrence; secret arrests, secret trials, and elimination, although not entirely aboveboard, necessary measures must be taken at critical times.